The more often I write these, the shorter they become, but the longer
it takes me to dig up new and interesting stuff. This week I had to
cast a net a little wider than usual. I did find a little
time to
play more Flash games by other people this week, so let's start there:

PhotonStorm
Rich has been busy thinking up ways to remake MSX and ST games.
He has
had quite a bit of success with this so far, so I'm pretty sure his
next set of games will be very good indeed. Rich also has
some inspiring art work
from his 8-bit
MSX days when he used to sit around designing games and magazines
(instead of do his Math homework?). There is some really
cool stuff in there. Rich, when EVERYONE here had an Apple or C64, we
have Atari 800s and STs. We know EXACTLY how you felt as an MSX kid in
a BBC/Speccy/C64 world.

Emanuele
Feronato
- As always, our Italian geek genius has added mucho content for all
your game dev needs. A couple of my favorites: In our 8-bit theme, he
has posted a Postmortem by Filippo Bodei
on his
C64 remake - Hi Roads (pronounced Trailblazer when it was an Atari
8-bit and C64 game). A tutorial on the very basics of Papervision 3d.
You
should be reading his site every day (and many of you already are).

Michael
James Williams
MJW has been adding a lot of cool new blog entries lately: Move With Mouse, Aim with Keyboard
is a nice tutorial with all the AS3 you will ever need. Michael, if you
are reading this, can I borrow the style sheet CSS you are using for
your code examples? It is the best I have seen! MJW also discusses some nice extensions for the Flash IDE
- Frame to Symbol and Queasy Tools are two very nice tools.